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| Formerly | Nexter (2006-2024), GIAT Industries (1973 - 2006) |
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| Company type | Société Anonyme |
| Industry | Defence |
| Predecessor | Nexter, GIAT Industries |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | French government |
| Headquarters | Versailles n. Paris , France |
| Products | artillery, ammunition, military vehicles, tanks, electronics, robots, CBRN, optronics |
| Revenue |
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| €118 million (2018) | |
Number of employees | 3,700 |
| Parent | since 2015 KNDS |
| Website | knds |
KNDS France (formerly known as Nexter, GIAT Industries or Groupement des Industries de l'Armée de Terre, Army Industries Group) is a French government-owned weapons manufacturer, based in Versailles. The company was wholly government-owned as GIAT from 1991 to 2006 and as Nexter from 2006 to 2015, when it merged with Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) to form KNDS: a single company jointly owned, via holding companies, by the French state and the private owners of KMW. In 2024, Nexter was renamed KNDS France.